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S A F
E T Y
The
practical work involved in devising celebrations requires the occupational health
and safety practices associated with the visual and performing arts. Always
put safety first.
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Site
decoration
[You
may also be interested in banners or
lanterns]
Site decoration adds quality and a sense of care to the event. Decorations
have to be designed for the specific event. Avoid the generic. They help
give the event its particular personality.
You can draw on decorations from a range of cultures. Banana frond-like
Indonesian banners with your company name can be staked or carried beside
every event you create. They move in the slightest breeze adding an effortless,
dynamic quality to an otherwise ordinary streetscape.
Other ideas include: multicoloured bunting from lining material or plastics;
2m crepe paper ribbons on sticks to be given out to children; coloured
material wrapped around lamp posts; decorated tree/s; banners hung from
buildings; decorated vehicles and windsocks.
Signage is part of site decoration. Mark performances as a sign of where
and when they are on. Methods include framed blackboards, a cluster of
different coloured ribbons, long flags and banana leaf banners as well
as music and procession which are all elements in the decoration of the
site.
Principles:
- Use existing placements.
- Work with the lightest possible safe surface structures (paper, lining
material)and energies (wind, sunlight, water, movement and curiosity
behaviour of people).
Use recycled materials where possible/available. They are cheap and
often suggest interesting ideas in themselves. Experiment.
Practices:
- Explore the qualities of movement of windsocks, banners and flags
on long rods.
- Let windsocks interact with each other: chasings, cat and mouse, boastings,
etc.
- Use a series of similar windsock or banner images.
- Try flag throwing and catching.
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Windsocks can be readily made from colourful scrap material. The
principle is the air enters a large hole and exits through a smaller
hole. This fills the windsock giving it three dimensions. The sock
can be designed to have a particular shape. Fish windsocks can be
turned into dragons or racing cars by judicious design.
They are operated by the wind as a site decoration but in a parade
they take on a new life as an operator sweeps them through a figure
of eight pattern and otherwise experiments. Here the decision can
be to have one windsock or many working together.
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You can make banners in a range of sizes
to decorate your site.
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